Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1974

Department

Physics & Computer Science

Abstract

A correction is given for one of Chambers’ second-order iteration formulae. It is shown that composition of the secant method with itself exhibits a convergence exponent of 2.414, whereas composition of the iteration function with itself yields an exponent of 2.83 1

Comments

This article was originally published in Mathematics of Computation, 28(126): 573-574. © 1974 American Mathematical Society

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